Split – Manipulate Time, Make Clones And Solve Cyber Puzzles From The Future! (v0.9.20)

A fractured future of colossal sealed cities provides the backdrop for a cerebral first-person puzzle adventure built around rewriting your own actions. Split casts you inside the infrastructure of a planetary defense network created after a devastating war, where automated societies have developed radically different ideas about how people should live. Its mood is cold, clinical, and faintly oppressive, with stark concrete spaces meeting glowing digital architecture. Rather than relying on a conventional story-driven shooter format, it asks you to outthink a hostile system one room at a time.

Time manipulation sits at the center of every challenge. You record actions, create copies of yourself, then coordinate with those clones to hold switches, move objects, distract threats, and execute solutions that would be impossible alone. Environmental puzzles draw on familiar first-person ideas—pressure plates, locked routes, timing tests, spatial navigation—but the ability to cooperate with your past self gives them a more tactical rhythm. Dangerous control-panel chambers also introduce traps and enemies, forcing quick reactions alongside careful planning; sometimes the smartest answer is destroying a threat, while other times it is freezing time, slipping past it, or sending a duplicate into danger.

Brutalist concrete structures and neon computer-world effects give the environments a look somewhere between Control’s severe government spaces and the luminous circuitry of Tron-style science fiction. Seemingly sparse levels reward curiosity, since side passages and overlooked corners can lead to additional spaces and solutions rather than serving as empty decoration. The cloning mechanic makes Split a strong fit for players who enjoy Portal, The Talos Principle, or The Swapper, but want puzzles less about physics and more about orchestrating multiple versions of themselves. Newcomers can engage with its recognizable puzzle language, while genre veterans are likely to appreciate the layered timing and execution demands.